Drug Abuse as a Predictor of Rearrest or Failure to Appear in Court in New York City, 1984 (ICPSR 9979)

Principal Investigator(s):Wish, Eric D.

Summary:

This data collection was undertaken to estimate the
prevalence of drug use/drug use trends among booked arrestees in New
York City and to analyze the relationship between drug use and crime.
The data, which were collected over a six-month period, were generated
from volunteer interviews with male arrestees, the analyses of their
urine specimens, police and court records of prior criminal behavior
and experience with the criminal justice system, and records of each
arrestee's current case, i... (more info)

This data collection was undertaken to estimate the
prevalence of drug use/drug use trends among booked arrestees in New
York City and to analyze the relationship between drug use and crime.
The data, which were collected over a six-month period, were generated
from volunteer interviews with male arrestees, the analyses of their
urine specimens, police and court records of prior criminal behavior
and experience with the criminal justice system, and records of each
arrestee's current case, including court warrants, rearrests, failures
to appear, and court dispositions. Demographic variables include age,
education, vocational training, marital status, residence, and
employment. Items relating to prior and current drug use and drug
dependency are provided, along with results from urinalysis tests for
opiates, cocaine, PCP, and methadone. The collection also contains
arrest data for index crimes and subsequent court records pertaining
to those arrests (number of court warrants issued, number of pretrial
rearrests, types of rearrests, failure to appear in court, and court
dispositions), and prior criminal records (number of times arrested
and convicted for certain offenses).

Access Notes

One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users
may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.

These data are freely available.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Wish, Eric D. Drug Abuse as a Predictor of Rearrest or Failure to Appear in Court in New York City, 1984 . ICPSR09979-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09979.v1

Universe:
Male arrestees booked at Manhattan Central Booking from
April to October 1984.

Data Types:
clinical data,
event/transaction data,
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
Nonrandom data collection from 6,406 arrestees. Priority
was given to those persons charged with nondrug felony offenses. Drug
offenses accounted for 20 percent of the sample, and 76 percent were
felony offenses.

Data Source:

personal interviews, urine samples, and police and
court records

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1993-05-13

Version History:

2000-04-18 SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been
added to this collection and the codebook and data collection
instrument are now available as a PDF file.